Lyric Poems - Poems For Lyric

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Californian - Poem by Brian Teare

It began like this : a radiomidday, heat—remember?—a shriekon the highway, and in the yardSteller's jays chafing over haggle, nag, their claimsa lyric tableau—pretty for the eye—howsun for months stuck aureolesof chrome around everything, evenyour poems, omensso no other disaster would happen.But that there was dust—it had not been so before in June,grass dead at edgeswhere a dirt spread had begun, feralcats interring piss into nasturtiums.His death had becomethe dropped side of a song, melodyundone by damageexactly the feel of teeth enteringan apple's bruise. The trellis keptthe jasmine raptas it collapsed in its own odor; so ardor alsotrained the spineof your weeping into a mind,confluence of fumes and confusion. Over sills,jambs, silt sent collusion : thistle, burr, mouseturds, urine's lingering funk in roomswhere to write was a widowalone with the last broom she'd bought. Heat,with its missing fingerand nine filed nails, tuned all afternoonits blue note : horizon a slack string tauteningagainst asphalt, whose soundwas drought, marsh departedbefore August began, black-outs rolledhouse to house, how perfect the fraud and emergencies.So there were two songssung in counterpointto jays, argument about belonging toa place,—remember—prey and prayer, one struckthe other beneath the lyric image, playing flintto tinder until on the radioeastern hills caught fire : extremis,excelsis, that ishow summer, all veilsand exhalations, courted the hills. Howalready the church was burningwhen your soul went out to meet him, to marryhis new weather